Biogenic
As a first step, we must break away completely
from orthodox terminology and create a wholly new scientific term for the
mysterious activity of those primordial, natural substances which the Essenes
called "living" foods. After careful consideration, Professor Székely coined the biochemical term of Biogenic (in Greek, life-generating) foods, in view that
these foods, such as seeds, whole grains, nuts, and legumes, have the
biochemical capacity, when germinated, to mobilize their dormant life forces
and thus virtualize their potentialities to create and generate new life. It
became increasingly evident that the classic proteincentric classification of
foods, derived from their content of calories, protein, starch, fats, and
carbohydrates, must be replaced with a new and revolutionary method of
classification, centered around the different degrees of life-generating and
cell-renewal capacities of different foods, the creative action of which
became so impressively apparent during the Great Experiment led by Professor Székely, even in theoretically incurable cases, again
and again through a third of a century, through thousands of his medical
histories.
Bioactive
He also had to find a name to indicate those natural, unprocessed foods, such as uncooked fresh fruits and vegetables which, though unable to generate a new, living organism (as the biogenic seeds were able to do), still were capable of sustaining perfectly the already existing life forces in the human organism. He called these life-sustaining substances Bioactive foods. Biogenic and bioactive foods are able to synthesize entirely new compounds and substances which can perform superior biogenical and biological functions, destroying biostatic and biocidic substances, microbes and faulty digestive processes. They strengthen the oxygen transport, cell respiration and biological resistance, accelerate cell renewal and through more efficient metabolic action stimulate the natural self-healing process (according to Plinius, vis medicatrix natu rae), strengthening it decisively even in cases of carcinoma. All of this could be witnessed in great astonishment, again and again through a third of a century of the "Great Experiment."
With the biogenic and bioactive foods, not only the destruction of enzymes is avoided , or the deterioration of the quality of certain amino acids and protein foods, the creation of toxic substances of fats through heat, the destruction of vitamins through processing, and the addition and removal of substances to and from natural foods, but also a very interesting phenomenon can be observed : these biogenic and bioactive foods are digested without increase of leukocytes in the stomach (which always occurs with foods denatured by heat and processing), leaving the leukocytes free in the bloodstream for more efficient defense.
Biostatic and Biocidic
After creating these two new names: biogenic,
for life-generating, and bioactive, for life-sustaining foods, a third term
had to be found for foods which are not life-generating nor life-sustaining,
but which simply slow down the life processes in the organism, accelerating
the process of aging. Under this term would be included cooked foods and foods
which were not fresh, etc. To this category the term Biostatic
foods was given. Finally, for food which
contains harmful substances, such as chemicals, additives, adulterants,
preservatives, etc., and which have been refined and processed, the name of Biocidic, or life-destroying foods was given.
The great Greek philosopher, Protogoras, said
that "Man is the measure of all things." In this spirit, it seems that
these four new terms, clarifying the function of food in the process of
life-generating, life-sustaining, life-slowing, and life-destroying, are more
adequate, scientific and practical than the classic four categories of protein,
fat, starch, and carbohydrates, which denote mainly the chemical composition of
foods rather than their vital function in the body.
While this orthodox classification of food
categories was based on their chemical composition, the Essene, or biogenic,
nutrition emphasized the central, vital principle: Foods
must be living, and there shall not be a time lapse between the still-living
plant organism and its ingestion in still-living condition into the human
organism. This is why, according to the Plinius manuscript, the
Essenes ate directly the still growing
sprouts, baby greens, vegetables, and fruits, in all their life-generating and
life-sustaining potential. There was no storing, no processing, no preserving,
no canning, and no freezing.
These foods went directly
and instantaneously from the soil or tree to the mouth. And it was
this simple and amazing method which, through a third of a century of our Great
Experiment with more than 123,000 people at Rancho La Puerta, created the most
amazing statistics of recovery of theoretically incurable cases (about 17% of
the total participants and test groups).
THE
TEN BASIC ESSENTIALS OF A PERFECT DIET
- You shall eliminate from your diet any food from
which vital nutrients have been removed, such as white flour, white sugar,
and all those foods in which these devitalized substances are hidden in
disguised forms, as they are all biocidic (a list of them might go into the
thousands).
- Artificial processing, factorizing, in a word, any process which alters the natural state of a food, destroys vital nutrients and creates biocidic foods.
- Excessive (commercial) storage, such as canning, preserving, freezing, artificial ripening, etc., causes depletion or complete destruction of vitamins, enzymes, plant hormones, etc., and creates biocidic foods.
- Artificial, synthetic additives, such as
chemical preservatives, anti-oxidants, humectants, emulsifiers, colorings,
etc., are extremely dangerous and may even be carcinogenic. All these foods
are biocidic and pathogenic; there is no such thing as a
"safe" or "harmless" quantity of these chemical
substances. And do not expect the label to reveal the whole truth about what
artificial substances and chemical additives may be contained inside a can,
package or container. Every food which is commercially processed in any way
may be considered to contain additives of some kind.
- Artificial substitutes of natural foods are not only biostatic, but may even be biocidic.
- Long storage in the home will also seriously deplete the nutritive value of foods, even those which may originally have been of high quality.
- Always choose fresh, raw fruits and vegetables, and avoid canned or prepared foods, even those which may come from a "health store."
- Your diet shall contain fresh, organic fruits
and vegetables, whole grains, seeds, beans, nuts, yoghurt, clabbered milk
and cottage cheese, made at home from fresh, raw milk, and fresh eggs from
healthy, well-nourished chickens who have plenty of fresh air and exercise.
Fresh, raw milk should come from healthy, well-nourished goats or cows.
- The two most important factors in the diet
should consist of, (1) embryonic vegetable substances, or Biogenic Foods,
and (2) of fresh, unprocessed, whole bionutrients, or Bioactive Foods.
Cooked, stale, unfresh foods, called Biostatic Foods, should be
avoided as much as possible, and under no condition should processed,
chemicalized, denatured, or flesh foods, called Biocidic Foods, ever
be eaten.
- Although we have less control over the environment than our diet, we should still avoid as much as possible polluted air, water, land, industrial by-products, contaminated substances, and dangerous radiations.
The practice of Essene Biogenic Nutrition is (as is also the theoretical and philosophical backgrounds of it) fully described in what is called the "Essene Biogenic Encyclopedia": "The Essene Way, Biogenic Living", edited by the International Biogenic Society, also available in Dutch translation from Stichting Trinity under the title of: De Esseense Wijsheid / De Biogene Leefwijze.
